TSM has underperformed the market and the semiconductor industry by as much as 20% since February, and the share price is up just 6% YTD. Quite a few semiconductor companies have struggled this year. ( read original story ...)
United BioPharma, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and Cheng Kung University Partner on World’s First Long-acting Herpes Treatment UB-621
United BioPharma announced today that Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and Cheng Kung University's Department of Microbiology and Immunology have joined United BioPharma's fight against the ... ( read original story ...)
Inflation nerves alive and well
Inflation nerves are alive and well with robust US Retail Sales lifting US yields on Friday and underpinning the US Dollar. Over the weekend, Bank of England Governor Bailey warned the bank would ... ( read original story ...)
InComm Payments Launches App Store Card in Taiwan’s Hi-Life Stores
InComm Payments, a leading global payments technology company, today announced it has expanded the distribution of App Store Card in Taiwan through a partnership with leading convenience store chain ... ( read original story ...)
Why is Taiwan at the mercy of China?
Beijing might resolve to disable Taiwan’s communications and operational systems, making the resistance very low and a war relatively bloodless Historically, China has clashed with the former Soviet ... ( read original story ...)
EDITORIAL: Bank-backed e-cash vital to Taiwan
In light of economies becoming increasingly digitalized, with more financial innovation and decreasing use of cash, the cryptocurrency boom has become a focus of central banks around the world — and ... ( read original story ...)
Rising imperialist tensions and war games over Taiwan
With agitation growing between the US and China over Taiwan, Simon Basketter explores how US intervention and rival imperialisms are at the root of the current dangerous crisis ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. and Canadian warships sailed through Taiwan Strait last week
A U.S. and a Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait late last week, the American military said on Sunday, at a time of heightened tension between Beijing and Taipei that has sparked concern ... ( read original story ...)
Will Beijing sharpen its laws to punish ‘Taiwan separatists’?
The national security legislation in Hong Kong ‘inspired’ mainland academics considering an enforcement mechanism related to Taiwan, says expert. ( read original story ...)
Breaking news: Japan to donate more Covid-19 vaccines to Taiwan
Worried about what is happening in the world of finance and how it will impact you ... that it will donate more vaccines against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to Taiwan as a part of its free ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s leader pays respects to 46 dead in building inferno
Taiwan's president on Saturday paid her respects at a morgue to the dozens of people killed in a deadly inferno that ripped through an aging tower block earlier in the week. The fire in the southern ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan: A friend in need is a friend indeed: Part 2
By Denys Springer Considering the size of Taiwan 36,197 square kilometers, length 396 kilometers and width 144 kilometers; the highest peak is ... ( read original story ...)
Can US ensure Taiwan’s sovereignty without entering into war: Report
A threat looms around the US about a danger of war with communist China over Taiwan, reported local media. Recently, supporting Taiwan has become more important than ever after US President Joe ... ( read original story ...)
Time to Sell Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSM)?
Wedgewood Partners, an investment management firm, published its third-quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A quarterly portfolio net return of +2.75% was recorded by ... ( read original story ...)
Asian markets rally as earnings temper inflation, taper worries
HONG KONG - Asian markets extended a global rally Friday on optimism for corporate earnings after a strong start to the reporting season, while traders cheered better-than-expected data indicating ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Semiconductor Earnings Reflects Problems with Supply Chain
Large financial companies are still monopolizing the earnings news. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Citigroup (NYSE: C), and U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) ... ( read original story ...)